Dirk-Jan C. Binnema (DJCB), the developer of the mu/mu4e suite, has announced that version 1.6 of the programs are coming. The current stable version, 1.4.X, was released a year ago and since then development has been taking place in the 1.5.X branch. DJCB says that they’ve frozen 1.5 to just bug fixes and documentation so that they can release the new stable version, 1.6.
His announcement includes a links to the version 1.5 News file so you can see what’s coming if you can’t wait to see. At this point, the programs are mature software so the update is basically polishing and small UX improvements. One significant change is that the gnus-based message viewer is now the default, although you can, of course, keep the old viewer if you like. Other than that, the indexing has been improved as has support for S/MIME, faster crypto, syntax highlighting, and calendar invitations.
I’ve been using mu/mu4e since (I think) the 0.9.6 version and have never looked back. It’s easy to organize and read your emails and for those that really depend on HTML, a quick key press will pop them up in EWW or your browser. This is GREAT software and I wouldn’t want to live without it.